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Genuinely love this little thing. Its API is really ergonomic and it has plenty of things that are missing even from libs like SDL like some nice filesystem utilities.

I'd consider it the Godot equivalent for C programmers.

Disappointed that this isn't "therapy from burning things".

I want combustion therapy to be a real thing.

This looks pretty cool. Are there any plans for binary file management or is that out of scope?

That's pretty impressive. I'm glad I archived most of my old teenage game/comic notes. I got burned with websites dying at a young age.

Also, funny that this comes to light around the release of Slayers X; A game with a similar fictionalized backstory.

Oh goodness. I get this crap all the time at work.

Apparently Adobe Acrobat isn't a commonly downloaded application. Somehow I fail to believe that...

That's cool. Had they already patched long strings of single digits by then?

I recall reading that SAL was patent encumbered but I can't for the life of me find the actual patent. I remember it coming up in the llvm forums though..

Err. Isn't the quake engine owned by Zenimax who are owned by Microsoft. That's a big if.

Also, I'm not sure if they could even grant such a license considering all the third party gpl contributions...

This is really cool. I'm personally most interested in the event scripting system as there's not a lot of documentation for developing those for systems with constrained ram (where you want a lot of stuff to be stored and read directly from ROM and not a lot of dynamic allocation ..if any!) Most embedded scripting projects reimplement languages like javascript which aren't very well suited for these conditions. Mostly intended to be run standalone instead of enhancing a running application. Actually, I might look at those Zelda decompilations as well now that people are bringing them up.

Implying the police actually turn up? Remember that those are the "lucky" ones.

They also have apecific devolved laws that you can be arrested for illegal speech in your own home and your children can be interrogated about it.

Did they remove that? I thought that tabs were still forbidden...

Been watching this for a while, personally very interested to see where this goes...

Oh, that's what those are! I thought it was just a crappy video feed to try and deter theft. Much like all they eye symbols on security camera warning signs. "As if they'd actually get some poor sod to sift through all the footage to prove that you didn't pay for a packet of crisps!"

On one hand: I am sick of banks and pseudo banks (Paypal, Stripe etc.) fucking about the digital payments space.

On the other hand: I am 100% sure that the UK govt will reimplement these hurdles and add their own.

I think this is missing the forest for the trees. Labour have openly endorsed all the "child protection" internet laws pushed by the Tory government.

Off the top of my head: depending on the jurisdiction there are several important legal documents that you are disalllowed from filing yourself and the judge is allowed to reject you with or without reason

I'm interested. What sort of regulations do you think would affect the robo-lawyer space in the UK?

Self-representation is frowned upon and mostly disallowed. Lawyers are expensive. I'd genuinely consider having ChatGPT fight for me.

They tried to get one of the newer ones with the digital display eyes to do it but the CPU of those is one of those nasty Sunplus ones that are real uncharted territory with their u'nSP instruction set. https://devpost.com/software/doomfurb

Didn't they already do this? I work at a massive org and we got bit by the earlier cut-off date. (Due to a large reliance on embedded activex stuff. Thanks microsoft for your scummy vendor lock-in on the web and thanks enterprise programming for having an obscene sixth sense for accruing technical debt with an eyewatering subscription fee.)

Xbox 360? I remember that the stock AMD drivers on my PC ran TIC-80 at half speed until I updated them...

Huh. I thought we'd run out of bizarre Minecraft development stories by now. It has to be one of the most documented ganes in history.

Anyway, I've personally always thought that the ending was rubbish but now that I know it was directly responsible for all those animated text effects I dislike it slightly less.

If Godot was written in C, I don't think I'd need anything else.

Still... Godot makes HEAVY use of C++'s exclusive features. The GUI system relies on complex static and virtual inheritance and the scripting engine makes serious use of macros for automatic class integration. ...and that's just me scratching the surface with my limited knowledge!

Person who authorized that was promoted into becoming the (now former) head of the metropolitan police btw.

Huh. At a surface glance, this is looking pretty cool. I especially like all the compiler work that's being done.

Is there any info on the application format/shared object system?

It also looks like they're toying around with a custom programming language (https://github.com/sleepy-monax/udfore) (Older version) from the Brutal repo's branches.

It's strange how they keep popping up in the most unlikely of places.

First it was a bunch of Russian bootleg MegaDrive games stealing BotB tunes that were included as demos with Shiru's TFM Music Maker.

Then there was a game jam where they all made really excellent TIC-80 games.

Ah, excellent. I was hoping to integrate JPEG XL into a future C project and was facing the prospect of reimplementing it/translating the standard implementation.

Seriously though, this is going to be HUGE for image editors. A format that finally supports both layers and animation.

I always thought that the 6502 was the hard one with all it's zero page shenanigans.

Hmm. This has some interesting bits even if it's ultimately a joke. I'm feeling some "alternate universe lua" vibes with ideas like using switch cases for everything.

Also, I really REALLY like how nulls are NO!s instead of nils or something similar. Getting flashbacks to a beloved TMBG album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsoFghzIQ0s)

Huh. I didn't know that the old PC-98 Touhou games used C++.

I always assumed that Zun used C - possibly including some custom ASM - due to the relative low power of the PC-98. (It's a custom 68000 machine in the vein of the Amiga for those unaware)

Still, I should have guessed. Plenty of DOS games used C++.

One thing I'm interested to see right off the bat is if Zun bothered with collision partitioning or not.